Medical Term:
Tourette syndrome
Pronunciation: tūr′et
Definition: a tic disorder appearing in childhood, characterized by multiple motor tics and vocal tics present for longer than 1 year. Obsessive-compulsive behavior, attention-deficit disorder, and other psychiatric disorders may be associated; coprolalia and echolalia rarely occur; autosomal dominant inheritance.
Synonym(s): Gilles de la Tourette disease, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, Tourette disease
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